In terms of proven oil reserves, Venezuela is the wealthiest nation in the world.

Yet news accounts abound of a Venezuela in the grips of an epidemic of hunger. We hear of the hungry eating zoo animals, and of the sick resorting to the drugs of animals to treat themselves and their families.

We see the socialist government of Venezuela point its collective finger at the United States as being the cause of its financial collapse; and we see the finger of the U.S. pointing right back at Venezuela. And so we ask…